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Integrate Discoverer with OAM

This post shows you how to integrate Oracle® Discoverer 11g with the single
sign-on (SSO) solution delivered by Oracle Access Manager (OAM) 11g. It helps anyone
who is looking for a one-stop login solution across different applications.

Configure SSO for Discoverer

If you are planning to configure SSO for both Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS)
and Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Discoverer, you need to configure SSO for
the Oracle EBS first. Oracle Access Manager, the preferred solution, forms the
basis of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.

The following steps are explained in more detail in the following sections:

Validation

Browse to the URL, enter your SSO login, and click Login as shown in the
following image:

Fill in the details as shown in the following image:

Click Continue and the system populates your user name automatically as
shown in the following images:

Conclusion

This post described how to implement an SSO solution for Discoverer.

Key benefits of implementing SSO in Discoverer are that it helps eliminates the
time spent re-entering user credentials and improves productivity for users,
increasing conversion rates for product owners. Internal and external users don't
have to go through the hassle of maintaining and remembering yet another set of
credentials.

SSO reduces the issues related to password management and brings down the costs
associated with setting up several help desk systems for password-reset issues,
invalid credentials, and so on.